The Console Wars
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- mitsu0
"i'd disagree with what mitsu says about consoles future not being in online environments.."
there are a ton of game devlopers out there that would agree with you. in all actuallity, that is THE only future for gaming. humans progress toward whatever is perceived as better as if it were instinctive.
take hollywood movies. when we saw special effects in movies like star wars for the first time, we thought, "oooh, wow, i wonder what it will be like in the year 2000? the future of movies is in special effects!" and sure enough it is. and while many of us realize that it's not special effects that make movies great, they continue to pump out more vin deisel and fast n' furious clones than you can shake a light saber at.
it's the same with games... we all see so much potential for realistic environments and online play... "it's the wave of the future!" but when they start saturating the game market with this crap, we'll have the same effect as in the movie industry.
too many developers out there don't realize what makes games fun and that's why retro games are still populari'm not at all against online gaming though. i've been playing team fortress classic, which is an online mulitplayer mod of the half-life engine, for over 3 years now. but i don't think that for games to be better they need to be online. i'm a huge fan of the final fantasy series, but i'll never buy final fantasy ix online as winning is just a matter of who spends more time on the game... sounds like a lame concept to me.